TY  - BOOK
AU  - Rodriguez, Katinka Floro.
TI  - Birthdays in the cemetery: a childhood in World War II Manila 
AV  - D 805 .P6 R63 2016
PY  - 2016///
CY  - Seattle, Washington
PB  - Alford Marr Press
KW  - Rodriguez, Katinka Floro
KW  - World War, 1939-1945
KW  - Personal narratives, Filipino
N1  - Includes Glossary (195-204); Birthdays in the Cemetery -- My Beginning -- Inay -- The Courtyard -- December 8, 1941 : The Bomb -- My family flees Manila -- A few weeks in Bagbag -- Life in Japanese-Occupied Manila -- The House on Arlegui Street -- Hiram's Death March -- School Days -- Making a Living -- Tia Josefa -- Another New Home -- My family's darkest day -- The Liberation of Manila -- Our Cousins, The von Giese Family -- Normal Life Resumes -- The Governees -- Albert Elementary School -- Calliope Claustro -- Aling Fidela, My Stepmother -- The Church -- Movies -- Miss Philippines 1948 -- My Father's First Stroke -- We Children Leave Home -- Remembering -- Photographs by Katinka Rodriguez -- Glossary -- Photo Credits
N2  - "A child's extraordinary memoir--surviving World War II in Manila.

Just after Pearl Harbor Day, a motherless six-year-old girl awakens when a bomb falls a block from her home, the beginning of years of shattering deprivation.

In World War II Manila, Katinka suffers starvation, illness, and cruelty and loses family in the infamous Bataan Death March. She survives Japanese occupation and the Battle of Manila. By the end of the war, Manila is destroyed and a million Filipinos are dead, but Katinka has endured the worst and now experiences the American liberation and reconstruction.

Packed with historical maps, original photographs, and an illustrated Tagalog glossary, Birthdays in the Cemetery is rich in sensory details about Filipino culture, vivid characters, and humor. This historical memoir offers a rare glimpse into the often-neglected story of World War II in the Philippines."
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